The mixing of men and women in Hajj
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The questioner : And he wrote the supplication for the Sirat. If it is made in the form of the supplication for the Sirat, and if we want to know where the hair is, what is the hair? We ask Allah the Exalted.
The Shaykh : And what is the question, then?
The questioner : It spreads the place or the edges.
The Shaykh : Because you are calling for recitation, and this is wrong. And as for you forbidding the mixing, this is also wrong, because the crowds cannot be free of mixing ever. So either we distinguish between men and women by place, or we distinguish between them by time, and both are corruption.
If we bring the women close by place, and we said the women would be at the size of the Tawaf area and the men close to the Ka'bah, then if the men wanted to go out, they would be crowded by the women and the harm would become worse. And if we said the women would be close to the Ka'bah and the men on the outer edge, harm would also occur if the women wanted to go out, yes, they would crowd the men with severe crowding. But if we said they would be separate in time, and we said we would make the morning for the women and the evening for the men, or the reverse, harm would also occur in this condition, because the woman would be separated from her mahram and might get lost, especially in days of transportation. So it is not possible to avoid mixing, but a person must fear Allah the Exalted and stay away from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and its causes as much as possible.
The presenter : Yes.
The Shaykh : And what is the question, then?
The questioner : It spreads the place or the edges.
The Shaykh : Because you are calling for recitation, and this is wrong. And as for you forbidding the mixing, this is also wrong, because the crowds cannot be free of mixing ever. So either we distinguish between men and women by place, or we distinguish between them by time, and both are corruption.
If we bring the women close by place, and we said the women would be at the size of the Tawaf area and the men close to the Ka'bah, then if the men wanted to go out, they would be crowded by the women and the harm would become worse. And if we said the women would be close to the Ka'bah and the men on the outer edge, harm would also occur if the women wanted to go out, yes, they would crowd the men with severe crowding. But if we said they would be separate in time, and we said we would make the morning for the women and the evening for the men, or the reverse, harm would also occur in this condition, because the woman would be separated from her mahram and might get lost, especially in days of transportation. So it is not possible to avoid mixing, but a person must fear Allah the Exalted and stay away from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and its causes as much as possible.
The presenter : Yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 123 - الاختلاط بين الرجال والنساء في الحج - مناسك الحج والعمرة - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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